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Developer Challenge: $40,000 in prizes. Now with added Spot Challenges!

Each weekday morning from now until the D&B Developer Challenge ends on July 31, we will post a new $50 spot challenge in the comment section at the bottom of the contest page. Each challenge poses a simple questions, and to find the answers you'll have to dig into the D&B Developer Sandbox on Windows Azure and use the DataMarket service explorer to search the dataset. Questions will be posted at 10am ET each weekday morning and the first person to reply on the contest page with the correct answer wins. Please see the D&B Developer Challenge contest page for the full rules and conditions of entry. If you have any questions about the challenge or D&B data then join our live conversation every Thursday at 2pm ET/ 11 am PT. D&B technical and data people are on hand to help!

Phil Lee knows Azure

Our Azure contest has finally closed and a huge congrats to Phil Lee with his unbelievably comprehensive walk-through and write-up of his journey through Azure. From a simple idea to a fully functioning database powered website talking to an Ubuntu VM running Apache Solr with a beautiful responsive design to allow it to function perfectly well on everything from a desktop to a smartphone. If you ever want to know how to make Azure work for you read his article.

	D&B Developer Challenge What you can do with over 215+ million business records? Create your account through Windows Azure Marketplace to access D&B’s Dev Sandbox and then tell us about it. Check out the challenge & prizes here.
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Most popular new articles

• ToDoList 6.7 Feature Release - An effective and flexible way to keep on top of your tasks - .dan.g.
  
• Agile software development methodologies and how to apply them. - Monjurul Habib
  
• TwitterBootstrapMvc - Dmitry A. Efimenko
  
• Extending HTML with AngularJS Directives - Bernardo Castilho
  
• An Absolute Beginner's Tutorial on Dependency Inversion Priciple, Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection - Rahul Rajat Singh
  

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Latest Additions

20 articles overall. 3 new, 17 updated.

New articles added

C / C++ Language

• Plain C OO Programming (How To) - roger gc
  Plain C, not any macro code definition. C OO rocks!
  
  

Document / View

• Environment Variable Compare - SajeeshCheviry
  Compare two system environment variables
  
  

Articles updated

Algorithms & Recipes

• High precision native Gaussian Elimination - Kenneth Haugland
  Solving linear equations and find the inverse matrix using Gaussian elimination
  
  

Applications & Tools

• ToDoList 6.7 Feature Release - An effective and flexible way to keep on top of your tasks - .dan.g.
  A hierarchical task manager with native XML support for custom reporting.
  
  

ASP.NET

• TwitterBootstrapMvc - Dmitry A. Efimenko
  Fluent implementation of ASP.NET-MVC HTML helpers for Twitter Bootstrap.
  
  

Charts, Graphs and Images

• Simple Dashboard - kannankeril
  Simple dashboard utilizing an elegant HTML+CSS+JavaScript template from TechGYO and the Highcharts library.
  
  

Client side scripting

• Extending HTML with AngularJS Directives - Bernardo Castilho
  Use AngularJS directives to teach HTML new tricks.
  
  

Code Generation

• Mo+ - A model oriented programming language and IDE for model driven development - Dave Clemmer
  Introducing the Mo+ language and the Mo+ Solution Builder IDE.
  
  

Design and Architecture

• Agile software development methodologies and how to apply them. - Monjurul Habib
  Introduction to Agile software development methodologies and how to apply them. It is about how to work together to achieve a common goal. This article focus on how technology team work together well to plan, build and deliver software.
  
  
• An Absolute Beginner's Tutorial on Dependency Inversion Priciple, Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection - Rahul Rajat Singh
  In this article we will talk about the Dependency Inversion Principle, Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection.
  
  

Hardware & System

• PLC Communication Using .NET - syed shanu
  Read and write data to Melsec PLC using .NET.
  
  

Java

• Java Thread Tutorial - user5583208
  This tutorial contains everything you need to know about the basic threading(concurrency) in Java language, simple and easy. includes diagram and code samples for better understanding :D
  
  
• Java Thread Example - user5583208
  5 simple cool Java Thread Example that you should see, ones that don't have any synchronization between themselves.
  
  

MFC

• Some notes on CMFCToolBar – Docking Large Buttons and use of the MDIClientArea - snavece
  Updating CToolBar to MFC Feature Pack (2008)
  
  

Site & Server Management

• Improve site load and cache time - NewAmbition
  A tutorial on how to use common technologies to improve the general speed of your site.
  
  

Testing and QA

• Rock Solid Quality - Paulo Zemek
  Make your life easier by having components that never corrupt inner states.
  
  

New Tips and Tricks added

Internet / Network

• HTTP Compression and Better Performance - Emon Khan
  Here, I show how to know whether a website's HTTP compress is enabled or not and by enabling you can improve your application performance.
  
  

Tips and Tricks updated

Ajax

• Auto Complete with jQuery Template Plugin and AJAX - sumit_kapadia
  AutoComplete Texbox with comma separated insertions
  
  

Combo & List Boxes

• Ownerdrawn ComboBox Example - Johnny J.
  A sample owner-drawn ComboBox.
  
  

Cryptography & Security

• Encrypting Editor Notepad replacement - Frank T. Clark
  A C# .Net 3.5 Windows Forms Application with source code.